I’m looking for a test document that includes all or most of the punctuation,
say Basic Latin, Latin-1 supplement and some of General Punctuation.
Biggest task in this is to use each character in a somewhat realistic setting.
A kind of punctuation pangram!
Mike
• New job: fix Mr. Gluck’s hazy TV, PDQ!
(includes 5 punctuation symbols)
“I saw Jane at the supermarket, in the fruit section: she said ‘Is John still researching?’ and bought a punnet of reddish-orange apricots; then she bought some dates!” said Edith.
The above includes eleven punctuation characters.
William Overington
25 January 2009
Some readers might like to know that code charts which include the punctuation which Mike mentions are available using links at the http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html webpage.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf
There is also Supplemental Punctuation in the http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf document.
The next link is to a document which includes some information about punctuation.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ch06.pdf
Links to that document and to documents for other chapters are available at the following web page.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/
William Overington
26 January 2009
Here is the text I eventually arrived at. Test most of my punctuation and special characters.
“I saw Jane & Joan at the supermarket, in the fruit section: she said ‘Is John still researching?’ and bought a pound of reddish-orange apricots; then she bought some dates!” said Edith. Cost of apricots was $1.45 per pound (€5,200 or £99.99) or {even ¥8,000 and there again ₪6.55} but maybe [a mere 3lbs @ 65¢ < 67¢ just maybe] where 3lb is sometimes 3# {with an interest rate of 4.2%} where 3*2=7 and so do 1+10= ~67 but only approximately. The micro_nano_1234 remember to type \ not /. These < and > of course match. How to use © or to use ® and so on… It’s apostrophe and this is a double quote " by itself. Don’t forget an ellipsis… 3^2 is a way of writing 3**2 or 3². «We have no guillemets today»
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And, by the way, in the top line of the iPhone screen, the colon in the time stamp on iPhoto (10:36 PM) should be changed to a period (10.36 PM), just like the times in good railroad timetables. Also AM and PM should be in lower case. So instead of 10:36 PM use 10.36 pm. These and similar typographic delicacies for time-stamps and timetables are discussed in Enivisioning Information, 104-105. – Edward Tufte, January 11, 2007
“.” or “:”, using a 24-h clock must be superior to am/pm? – Peter H (email), January 12, 2007
In re: ET’s inclination towards the “period” instead of a colon for time-stamps, I have begun to see (and use):
i) the “period” in phone numbers as well - 650.555.1212, and
ii) only a small “a” or “p” after time numerals - “…will meet you Tues. at Peet’s on campus, 7:15a.”
These seem tidy; any reason/s to think either confusing or unappealing? – David J (email), January 20, 2007
– Edward Tufte, January 21, 2007